{"id":254,"date":"2016-02-17T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/02\/17\/games-on-film-invades-national-harbors-magfest-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:47:00","slug":"games-on-film-invades-national-harbors-magfest-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/02\/17\/games-on-film-invades-national-harbors-magfest-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Games on Film invades National Harbor&#8217;s MAGFest this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In DC, film festivals turn up in the oddest places. This city hosts so many non-profits and interest organizations that you can usually find special screenings for any topic or culture, <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Film%20festival\">as we&#8217;ve covered in the past<\/a>. For 2016, you can add gaming to that list: as part of the annual Music and Games Festival in National Harbor, Maryland, MAGFest is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/magfest.org\/gamesonfilm\/\">Games on Film<\/a>, a selection of 15 films and 40 shorts about games and gaming culture.<\/p>\n<p>Over the four-day event, which starts tomorrow, Games on Film will screen a mix of feature films and documentaries about gaming. We&#8217;ll admit that the feature film selection seems less interesting (most are fan adaptations of popular games), but the documentaries caught our attention. Of particular interest are <a href=\"http:\/\/magfest.org\/gamesonfilm\/featurefilm\/thank-you-for-playing\/\"><i>Thank You for Playing<\/i><\/a>, about the production of a game based on a true story of childhood cancer, and<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/magfest.org\/gamesonfilm\/featurefilm\/the-power-of-glove-sneak-preview\/\">The Power of Glove<\/a><\/i>, a tongue-in-cheek look at the infamously poor Nintendo glove controller.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also quite a few about the culture around gaming and game conventions, especially costuming Keep an eye out for <a href=\"http:\/\/magfest.org\/gamesonfilm\/featurefilm\/shades-of-cosplay-a-black-cosplayer-documentary\/\"><i>Shades of Cosplay: A Black Cosplayer Documentary<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MAGFest isn&#8217;t an inexpensive event \u2013 $75 for the weekend or $45 per day \u2013 so we&#8217;re not sure we can recommend going entirely for the film lineup. But if you&#8217;re interested in gaming anyway (board games too!), you should stop in at this up-and-coming festival.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In DC, film festivals turn up in the oddest places. This city hosts so many non-profits and interest organizations that you can usually find special screenings for any topic or culture, as we&#8217;ve covered in the past. For 2016, you can add gaming to that list: as part of the annual Music and Games Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121,128,151],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-event","tag-film-festival","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}